The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-04
=eF@0UR OWN CITY
Resources and Attractions OF
Salt Lake, Utah.
A FEW VERY SOLID FACTS.
Progress and Observation-Disclosures
OF Opinion No Bar to Success
Opportunities for Investment.

The following letter, written by Secre-
tary Forhan, of the Chamber of Com
merce, has been printed in at least
thirty journals of the east, at last &C
counts. To quite number of these,
the letter had been sent, and on the
other hand, several prominent journals
have reproduced it without being re-
quested to do so. Such action on their
part is only another evidence that the
eyes of the country are being turned
towards US, and for different purpose
than heretofore:
There is hardly city in TIE United
States that is better known to the
stranger and foreigner than Salt Lake.
1t is a lovely spot, the Arcadia of
America, where peace and prosperity
and content should dwell. l have
travelled through many country and
gazed in rapture on the sunlit glories
ana loVeliness of the tropics, but no.
where have my admiration and en-
thusiasm been SO reused as in Salt Lake.
1t is hard to say what attractions
and recommendation a place should
possess to satisfy perfectly the wishes
and wants of all. There are two ele-
ments, however, in the human soul
which expand and grow ravenous with
age and lead men to Investigate care
fully the resources, attractions and pos
sibiliies OF every locality. AS the wants
of life grow more numerous, the greed
OF gold" increases. and the WEAKNESS
and exhaustion resulting from its pur-
suit begets yearning for the peace snd
rest 81 home. The locality that yields
promise of the greatest amount of pros
perity and the conditions and surround
jngs of which make q home the most
happy and attractive is regarded as the
most desirable by all. That Salt Lake
enjoys these advantages, no one who
has ever visited the city will deny, but
il is a matter of establishment that hay
ing possessed them in their plentitude
she has not grown and been developed
into populous and beautiful metropo-
lis long ere this. Local issues have
done much to retard and hinder
THE PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY
of the city and Territory. Hundreds of
III VIC OOl AtdNS SO11C hOlC W
gaze on the wondrous beauties of the
surroundings and to curiously view the
institutions of people of whom much |
has been heard and saiI. The claims |
of this people, however. were at vari- |
auce with the religious notions and |
theories of the visitors and for this |
reason the social, religious and political |
life of the citizens engrossed the atten-
ton of strangers to the exclusion of
more important considerations II has
been to crafty their curiosity that
strangers have visited Salt lake. BE- |!
most it has been assumed that to locate
and live in Salt Lake meant toTenounce
their personal convictions and hence
here was no attempt or effort to in
7estigate the situation from a business
And so hundreds of thnus-
tnds have come and gone in whose
mind Salt Lake is alone associated with
he Temple and Tabernacle and polyg-
my. But gradually attention is III
Terted from these institutions and is {
,eing directed to the wonderful re.
ources and attractions of the country.
The local population is gr6Fing more
diversified.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION OR BELIEF
re not regarded as just grounds for
ersonal enmity or social disturba ce,
he conviction that all possess the same
lights here under the law as are pos
eSsed elsewhere Is being forced upon I
utSiders and visitors. Successful mer-
han;s and manufacturers representing u
very religious denomination and every I
Official party are here engaged in bus n
less, and their success is leading 9TH .
rs 10 investigate the opportunities for
ew investments. And the result Of the s
lvestlgation is surprise to many, g
ven TO the citizens themselves who n
ave lived here for years, bat bestowed +,
tile attention on the material re- h
ources OF the country. An awak ming n
as Just taken place, however, which 8
romlses brighter future for Salt il
axe. For the first time In its history a
he business men of all creeds and opin. ii
ms have united in an effort to promote "
lie material interests of the city and n
erritory. The developments and reyeIa- h
ons concerning the hidden and unde-
eloped wealth of the Territory which a
ave resulted from the united efforts of N
lie business men have astonished II
IeryOne and now letters of inquiry are n
'mlng from all parts seeking for infor- h
alton regarding our mountains and II
alleys and the opportunities for n
SAFE INVESTMENT IN SALT LAKE. u
little reflection has convinced all who q
I've visi ed Salt Lake that by reason of III
vast mineral resources and apund- N
Ice of supplies for manufacturers +,
lrposes as well as by reason of It's To- -
tion which makes it the natural sup
= centre of six or eight States and
,rritories it is destined. despite all
'stacles and antagonisms, to become
e great metropolitan city of the inter 8.
ountain region. In
Wonderful changes are wrought at
a few years, yet the possiDil- ba
IS and even the certainty of or
ch changes taking place arr -
.quently disregarded. Twenty years ~ ~
We not elapsed since the first railroad III
PISSED the Mississippi at st. Louis. ~
d in that time what changes have 81
en- wrought throughout the west! "a "a
icago has increased in population 100 y?
r cent. and in wealth, industry AID WI
traffic, has grown ia be one VI.
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